P6P6 — Principal Professional
Principal Advisory
Acts as a key leader in clinical operations for the company. Designs scalable trial processes and mentors other managers.
What this level means
Top individual contributor; recognized authority with strategic impact, equivalent to a low executive level
- Scope
- Organization-wide architecture and the hardest problems
- Autonomy
- Defines direction; minimal oversight
- Complexity
- Strategic, open-ended problems shaping the technical future
- Impact
- Organization-wide
- Decision rights
- Sets technical strategy for a major area
- Leadership
- Recognized authority; multiplies many teams
- Typical experience
- 12–18 yrs
What you'd do
- Designs scalable trial processes
- Mentors other managers
- Design scalable processes
- Mentor management team
Skills, knowledge & tools
- Process design
- Leadership mentoring
- Innovation
- Risk management
- Process scalability
- Leadership development
- Innovative practices
- Risk assessment
- Influential leadership
- Vision for innovation
- Organizational acumen
- Advanced risk-taking
What good looks like
- 12–15+ years of experience
Common titles
Clinical Trials VIClinical Trials 6Principal Clinical TrialsPrincipal Advisory
What it pays
Market-pay benchmarks for this family × level are being recalibrated across all survey sources and will return shortly.
O*NET / SOC: 19-0000 — Life, Physical, & Social Science Occupations (inferred)